{"id":2412650,"date":"2025-03-11T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-hearing-unravels-after-trans-lawmaker-called-mister-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:10:06","slug":"house-hearing-unravels-after-trans-lawmaker-called-mister-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-hearing-unravels-after-trans-lawmaker-called-mister-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"House hearing unravels after trans lawmaker called &#8216;mister&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-hearing-unravels-after-trans-lawmaker-called-mister-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2412650&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A recent House hearing turned chaotic when representative \u2062Keith\u200b Self (R-TX) \u200creferred to transgender Representative Sarah McBride (D-DE) as &#8220;mister.&#8221; In response, \u2064McBride addressed\u2063 Self \u2062as \u200c&#8221;Madam chair,&#8221; leading to \u2064escalating tensions. Ranking member Bill Keating (D-MA) criticized Self&#8217;s \u2063introduction,\u2062 demanding \u2062that McBride \u200bbe recognized correctly. self insisted on continuing the hearing, prompting Keating to leave in frustration, which resulted in Self\u2063 adjourning the session. <\/p>\n<p>After\u200b the incident, Self \u2064defended his \u200dremarks, citing\u200b a policy \u2063that recognizes only \u200dtwo sexes, male and female, as\u2063 per\u200c an executive order from the Trump administration.\u2063 Representative Mary Miller\u200c (R-IL)\u2063 supported \u200dSelf&#8217;s stance, reinforcing the viewpoint that \u200daligns with biological definitions \u2062of gender. McBride, notable as the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">frist transgender member<\/a> of congress, \u2064has been a \u2064point of contention\u2064 among\u200c some Republicans, who have previously \u200drestricted\u200b her access\u2063 to bathrooms aligned with her gender identity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">House hearing unravels after Keith Self calls transgender Sarah McBride &lsquo;mister&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2036180\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House<\/a> hearing devolved into chaos after Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) referred to Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3244443\/sarah-mcbride-rejects-trans-member-label-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Sarah McBride<\/a> (D-DE), a transgender woman, as &ldquo;mister.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>McBride then fired back, calling Self &ldquo;Madam Chair&rdquo; in the House Foreign Affairs Europe Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3343899\/house-gop-passes-stopgap-funding-bill-help-trump-vance\/\">House GOP passes stopgap funding bill with help of Trump-Vance pressure campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3343738\/marjorie-taylor-greene-blasts-failure-screen-vehicle-passengers-under-biden\/\">Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts &#8216;complete failure&#8217; to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mtg-blasts-failure-to-screen-passengers-at-border-under-biden\/\" title=\"MTG blasts ...failure... to screen passengers at b... under Biden\">screen vehicle passengers<\/a> at border under Biden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3343762\/house-gop-funding-johnson-confident-measure-pass\/\">House GOP funding patch clears first hurdle with Mike Johnson confident measure will pass<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Ranking member Bill Keating (D-MA) grew angry with Self, asking him to repeat his introduction of McBride.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mr. Chairman, you are out of order,&rdquo; Keating said. &ldquo;Mr. Chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I&rsquo;ve come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will continue this hearing,&rdquo; Self said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-killed-during-protests-and-unrest-in-myanmar\/\" title=\"Two Killed During Protests And Unrest In Myanmar\">duly elected representative<\/a> the right way,&rdquo; Keating shouted.<\/p>\n<p>Self then adjourned the hearing as Keating stormed off.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe hearing devolves after transgender Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) is referred to as &#8216;Mister.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/utm6ofoJ0W\">https:\/\/t.co\/utm6ofoJ0W<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IxkUhnOIvH\">pic.twitter.com\/IxkUhnOIvH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcexaminer\/status\/1899621613085356462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>The Texas representative later justified his actions, saying in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepKeithSelf\/status\/1899551423517667808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">post<\/a> on X, &ldquo;It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), who introduced McBride in early February as the &ldquo;gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride,&rdquo; also weighed in. &ldquo;@RepKeithSelf is right to state the biological reality that Tim &lsquo;Sarah&rsquo; McBride is a man. Enough with the lies,&rdquo; she posted on X. &ldquo;As God ordained and President Trump declared, there are only TWO GENDERS: Male and Female!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>McBride is the first transgender member of Congress and has drawn considerable attention from Republicans, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3244443\/sarah-mcbride-rejects-trans-member-label-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">barred the Delaware lawmaker<\/a> from House bathrooms corresponding to McBride&rsquo;s gender identity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3315975\/doge-doing-across-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRACKING WHAT DOGE IS DOING ACROSS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The executive order that Self and Miller referred to was Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government&rdquo; order.<\/p>\n<p>The order states, &ldquo;It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2036180\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2036180\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House hearing descends into chaos as Keith Self misgenders Sarah McBride<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2412651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McBride.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32722,35629,51968],"class_list":["post-2412650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-house-hearing","tag-political-discourse","tag-trans-lawmaker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McBride.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412654,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412650\/revisions\/2412654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}